Cyber-Physical Security of Air Traffic Surveillance Systems

Abstract

Cyber-physical system security is a significant concern in the critical infrastructure. Strong interdependencies between cyber and physical components render cyber-physical systems highly susceptible to integrity attacks such as injecting malicious data and projecting fake sensor measurements. Traditional security models partition cyber-physical systems into just two domains – high and low. This absolute partitioning is not well suited to cyber-physical systems because they comprise multiple overlapping partitions. Information flow properties, which model how inputs to a system affect its outputs across security partitions, are important considerations in cyber-physical systems. Information flows support traceability analysis that helps detect vulnerabilities and anomalous sources, contributing to the implementation of mitigation measures. This chapter describes an automated model with graph-based information flow traversal for identifying information flow paths in the Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast (ADS-B) system used in civilian aviation, and subsequently partitioning the flows into security domains. The results help identify ADS-B system vulnerabilities to failures and attacks, and determine potential mitigation measures.

Meeting Name

IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology

Department(s)

Computer Science

Comments

National Science Foundation, Grant CNS-1837472

Keywords and Phrases

ADS-B system; Cyber-physical systems; integrity; privacy

International Standard Book Number (ISBN)

978-303062839-0

International Standard Serial Number (ISSN)

1868-4238; 1868-422X

Document Type

Article - Conference proceedings

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Citation

File Type

text

Language(s)

English

Rights

© 2020 Springer Verlag, All rights reserved.

Publication Date

01 Jan 2020

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